Bracket



(No Model.)

G. W. BABE.

BRACKET.

No. 257,202. I Patented May 2,1882.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR dime M6 9% WW 6 MA) 14622 ATTORNEY UNITED STATESPATENT ()FFICE.

GEORGE W. BAER, OF navrorn'oaio.

BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,202, dated May 2,18:82.

' Application filed January 9, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BAER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Bracket, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to a groove or grooves on the face of the eye ofthe wall-plate, and a suitable projection on the bracket to traverse thesame, to prevent the bracket from being raised out of position bylifting anything from it, and to hold the same in a fixed position whenit is desirable.

The mechanism is illustrated in the accom panying drawing in which thefigure is a front view of the bracket.

A represents the wall-plate, which is made of cast-iron, and has aseries of eyes to support three brackets. The wall-plate may beconstructed to support only one bracket, or as many as may be desirable.The general features of the wall-plate are like those in use, the eyesstanding out suffioiently to receive the pivots of the bracket. Thedifi'erence consists in the vertical, oblique, and transverse grooves onthe face of the upper series of eyes. The shallow grooves F are invertical line at the top, thence oblique, terminating in a trans versegroove extending from side to side of the eye. At the bottom of thetransverse groove is a notch, which islocated at such point as it may bedesirable to hold the bracket in a fixed position.

The bracket B is cast in metal, and may be constructed in any desirableform. It has two pivots to enter the eyes of the wall-plate.

At G is a projection which traverses the grooves, and when ithas passeddown into the. transverse groove may drop into the notch and be therebyheld in a fixed position.

At D is a projection which enters a hole in a board used as a shelf,which may be supported on the brackets.

.In attaching the brackets to the wall-plate the pivots are entered withthe bracket at a right angle to the plate, the projection entering theface-groove, passing down into the transverse groove; and when desirableto have the same held in a fixed position the projection is permitted toenter the notch communicating with the transverse groove. hen thebracket-projection has descended into the transverse notch a directmovement upward prevents its disengagement, therefore is not liable tobe lifted out on removing an article suspended from the bracket. Thesame useful results may be attained by extending the vertical part ofthe groove on a direct line to the transverse groove. The object of theoblique groove is to prevent the bracket from being raised directlyupward from a position at a right angle to the wall-plate. In using thebracket to support a shelf, the same thereby remaining in a permanentposition, the transverse groove of the plate may be dispensed with.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

1. The wall-plate A, with grooves in face of eye, as shown anddescribed, in combination with the projection O of the bracket totraverse the same, substantially as set forth..

2. The wall-plate A, having a notch on the face of the eye communicatingwith the transverse groove, in combination with the projection 0 of thebracket, for the purpose of locking the same in a fixed position,substantially as set forth.

GEORGE W. BAER.

Witnesses:

B. PIGKERING, J OHN HANITOH.

